Services & Products

Nutrimenta Veterinaria (www.nutrimentaveterinaria.com) is a web application which permits an extremely easy and rapid way to customize nutritional plans for pets. Nutrimenta Veterinaria supports vets step by step, from the anamnesis to the definition of the personalized nutrition plan and the release of a detailed diet report for pet owners.

The Habilis Platform (www.habiliseurope.eu) is a web based software
system that allows patients to exercise outside the hospital
environment, expanding the time of rehabilitation and guaranteeing
better recovery and higher quality of life.

The ICT
dept. of Signo Motus provides complete ICT solutions and
services to end-users, managing the whole development process
(requirements analysis, system technical specifications, design, development,
testing, deliver, support and assistance). A relevant expertise has
been acquired in the eHealth domain. The Company acts as
exclusive Italian distributor of Pixel Technology s.c. RIS/PACS and
teleradiology software solutions (www.pixel.com.pl).

CLEAR

European Research (September 2008 / February 2012)

“Clinical Leading Environment for the Assessment
of Rehabilitation protocols in home care”

Programme:

ICT Policy Support programme under the Competitiveness and
Innovation Framework Programme (CIP)

Coordinator:

Signo Motus

Consortium:

13 partners (4 IT, 4 SP, 2 PL, 3 NL)

Costs:

€ 5.615.735

The CLEAR project ended its intense and amazing experience in
February 2012 obtaining important results to be used to deploy tele
-rehabilitation services in Europe.

They can be can be broadly divided in three main sectors:

Technical achievements obtained through the design and
implementation of the interoperable software platform (Habilis
platform).. The Habilis platform is flexible enough to be easily
adopted in further contexts (e.g. further diseases, further service
models). The quality perceived by users is generally good,
especially from the patients and caregivers point of view and from
very aged patients without previous IT skills.

Clinical achievements related to six clinical studies on
paretic upper limb in stroke survivors, acquired brain injury (ABI),
dementia, osteoarthritis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD) and chronic pain, carried out in the four centres of
excellence in Italy, Poland, Spain and The Netherlands. CLEAR
demonstrates that tele-rehabilitation is feasible, safe and
efficacious being beneficial to patients affected by different
diseases

Methodological Achievements, concerning the Health Technology
Assessment based on an innovative multidimensional approach focused
on the analysis of all the technical, organizational and legal
aspects of all the service components. The result is a complete,
broad assessment, carried out by a pool of local independent
assessors, providing insights and guidelines for further improving
the service and for facilitating the potential service uptake within
other Regions or Countries.

Since its inception, the Project had the ambition to create a
European platform for tele-rehabilitation and to contribute to the
harmonization of e-health services at European level.

With this scenario in mind, CLEAR carried out clinical trials in
four Member States of the European Union (IT, ES, NL, PL), involving
more than 960 patients affected by the most widespread chronic
diseases heavily burdening on Health Systems: Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease (COPD); Musculoskeletal problems and chronic pain;
Stroke; Mild cognitive impairments and Dementia.

Dedicated ICT-assisted, rehabilitation protocols for remote
rehabilitation and chronic disease management have been designed
supporting patient self-training (patient empowerment) under the
remote control of medical staff.

These protocols allow people to maintain their abilities for a longer
period of time through a personalised set of exercises that patients
can execute at home or in “kiosks” located outside hospitals, and
close to their abode, where patients can share rehabilitation
facilities and socialize. The service is focussed on “HABILIS”
integrating advanced information management and synchronous and
asynchronous communication facilities. Patients perform the rehab
sessions outside the rehabilitation centres, execute the specific
exercises that are recorded, encrypted and sent to the clinical team
to be reviewed successively. The software, purposely conceived to
decrease the necessary time to analyse the data, allows clinicians to
assess the performed exercises and update the rehab sessions
remotely.

CLEAR has been a fundamental step in helping clinicians treating
patients who seek health treatment in a comfortable environment,
including home, under supervision of a specialized team.

Signo Motus has been involved both as Project Coordinator and as
technical partner for the development of the Habilis Platform and
provided the technical support underlying the
implementation/management of the tele-rehabilitation service at EU
level.